Ike Davis

SAN FRANCISCO Hudson earned the win as the Giants capped a sweep of the A's with a 4-3 victory and, at age 40, now has at least one victory against all 30 major league teams. This was potentially his last chance to get it done against the A's, the franchise with which he won 92 games over first six big league seasons. It didn't come easily, even after the Giants gave him some early offense. San Francisco (54-44), which pulled to within a game of the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers, got a two-run home run from Matt Duffy and scored three runs in the first inning. Duffy also singled in a run in the second inning to make it 4-1 Giants. Hudson started laboring in the fourth...

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